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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Really digging this version of a Wanted poster. (Minus the cop part)

Paper flyer taped to a tree reading:
RECOGNIZE THIS BIGOT?
© 2:05 A.M. 9/7/2026 Arrived under the cloak of darkness. So brave.
~ Entered our private screened-in porch to rip down our LGBTQ+ Pride flag.
Couldn't overpower the flag on his first try. Tried again and, against all odds, conquered the fabric.
After this tremendous display of courage and strength, ran north leaving the property.
_ Appears to be a light/white-skinned male (Nothing oozes "privilege" quite like assuming his opinions outrank property lines. Such a tough guy.)
Wearing jeans, a shirt, and Adidas sneakers. (Breaking stereotypes clearly wasn't on his to-do list.)
His visit, including his face and actions, was captured on video.
This incident has been reported to the CHICAGO POLICE.
As soon as we identify him we will be pressing charges!!!
IF YOU SEE OR KNOW HIM PLEASE CALL the CHICAGO POLICE and give them the report number RD# JK403322
This happened on the first block of Neward Ave between Pratt and North Shore.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've never seen a librarian be so librariany. Blanche Cretini, at your service.

Black and white photograph of a woman leaning on a counter in a library. She has dark hair in a bun, dark-framed glasses, a string of pearls around her neck, and a woman's suit jacket with a big white collar.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just a normal coaster at my parents' house.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Chicago, it's like you forget 1871 happened.

An all wood back porch in the back stairs of an apartment building, with a small grill, full of charcoal, unlit.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"Curate" was already mis-used to death, but now it's turning over in its grave.

A sandwich board on the sidewalk for a fitness studio that says "Success is a collection of well-curated failures" written by hand in marker.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I only understand each of these words individually.

Headline saying: Megalibraries in pole position for autonomous discovery over self-driving labs

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

OFFICIALLY called denazification

The cover of a formerly classified government publication from 1945 called "Denazification." It's a monthly report from the Military Government of Germany, US Zone

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Lol someone put this on the fridge where our "Mr AI" Dean stores his lunch.

A purple piece of paper with black text on it hung on a fridge with magnets. The text says "It is urgent to abandon an economic model that proposes infinite growth on a finite plant."

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Really great info in this Chicago Voter Guide. #knowyourcity

A Q&A part of the voter guide website with this:
What if I’m too tipsy to vote because it’s St. Patrick’s Day?
Lucky for you, polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. so you can go before you start celebrating. To make voting a breeze, or just in case you had a morning brew, you can fill out your ballot in our “Build Your Ballot” tool above and save it on your phone.

Generally speaking though, showing up at the polls intoxicated is typically frowned upon and you could get in trouble for public intoxication or disorderly conduct. So make sure to plan ahead.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The photos of the raccoons (2) turned into a library meme and then mascot of the union. How else would you advertise staff events?

The background of the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover with 4 raccoons in the crosswalk. The raccoon photos are photoshopped to be wearing a pie, hamburger, pie, and a beer keg next to water balloons. The text above the raccoons announcing a summer bbq.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Things can go downhill real fast.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

One unintended consequence of this admin's refocus of the military is there's no 2026 cat and dog calendar from the Portland US Army Corps of Engineers. It's honestly devastating. www.nwp.usace.army.mil

screenshot of a website showing 2025 calendar covers with a photoshopped cat posed on a dam and a corgi popping out from behind a hill, respectively.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Me reading a professional listserv: whoa liquor as a conservation issue tell me more! Probably everyone else reading it: an artist's signature is important provenance tell me more!

subject line of a an email "Maker's Mark on Wooden Stretcher"

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

1. THIS IS NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, it's sensors that have been around for decades. 2. Good job, Phoenix airport.

A plaque at the Phoenix airport:
Smart Glazing
This facility utilizes electrochromatic glazing that uses artificial intelligence to automatically adjust in response to the sun, increasing access to natural light and unobstructed views while helping to minimize heat gain and glare for greater energy efficiency.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This has very different meaning depending if you print or hunt.

An envelope with "Damaged 10' bullets" written on it, on a metal try with lead type detritus around.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It's my time to shine! My lo-fi solution is to use towels or similar and roll up. Another towel can be put down to protect the spine. @bakerdphd.bsky.social

close up of an open book with a hand towel rolled underneath the front cover

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Oh ok "but no works of art were affected" just papers. Have fun with your "art" when there's no provenance documentation.

New York Times' head- and sub-line reading:
Leak Hightlights Poor State of Louvre Infrastructure.
Up to 400 documents have been damaged by the leak, according to Frances Steinbock, the deputy administrator of the museum. But no works of art were affected.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Did someone speed up the weather app

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Don’t know how this guy found me, but love that gmail gave his email the shopping icon.

Screenshot of an unopened email from Shaun King

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

When archives randomly give, they give hard. Folder dated Nov 28, 1953

A file folder with the title “Assaults Upon the Constitution Part 3” typed on the top

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

We’re at the “liberal white home owners have professionally designed yard signs warning about ICE” stage of outrage in Chicago.

A yard sign with Spanish text explaining a person’s rights if stopped by ICE. There’s a white picket fence in the background.

A yard sign with Spanish text explaining a person’s rights if stopped by ICE. The sign is among plants and flowers in a front yard.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Yesterday I screenshot this video of the same camera guy. Video posted by @caarprnow.bsky.social on instagram

Screenshot of a reel on Instagram showing a masked CBP agent in the foreground and a guy in a blue shirt and black mask holding a professional-looking camera following him.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Finally got some of those farmers market flowers, thanks to a wonderful friend.

A bouquet of red, orange and pink Dalia on a black table.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I mean, this Chicago common brick mortar is a crime but otherwise…

A wall of red, light red, and mottled cream bricks with the globby mortar missing or falling out.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

For years I’ve had this brilliant print by my dad (in 2007!) and every time I look at it I’m like, hoo boy yeah. And now I’m like fuckityfuckfuck.

A grey-ish paper with wavy borders with the phrase “Beware the fascists they will be wrapped in flags and carrying bibles” printed in light colors with wood and metal typefaces.

Colophon
This page was printed on the artist's shaped, variable, handmade paper which contains rag fibers including American flag pieces, Bible pages, and cotton half stuff and linter. Unnamed wood types and Alternate Gothic were printed on top of two low-relief gel medium Sandragraph textures. The map and the instructions on this side were printed from polymer relief plates. The image side has 9 colors and 8 runs, count 'em. Printed by John Risseeuw at his Cabbagehead Press May, 2007. Of an edition of 100, this is A/P

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Why do these parsnips feel vaguely sexual

A black and white photo reproduced in a book of a pile of long parsnips held together
In a low open basket.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Time to get the gang back together.

Front of a pamphlet:

American league against war and fascism

Proceedings
Third U. S. Congress
Against War and Fascism
United Against Fascism
For Peace
Cleveland, Ohio, January 3-5, 1936

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

👀 I feel like we check these boxes? (From a 1936 publication)

Do You Know What Fascism Means?
FASCISM IN THE UNITED STATES IS
—the destruction of democracy by violence.
—the denial of free speech, free press and free assembly.
—the substitution of the rule of force for the attempt of the people to govern themselves.
-prejudice, intimidation and persecution of Negroes, Jews, and the foreign-born.
—the growing suppression of organized labor.
-preparation for War and exploitation on other lands
—the lowering of the standard of living.
—the use of relief funds for military purposes.

And all this for the sake of preserving profits, property income and the profit system.
Do You Want These Dangers to Grow in Our Country?
If not, do you know what you can do right now to halt

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

NU’s Herskovits library has decades of Drum magazine and they are great - come see them in person!

Cover of Drum Magazine with a photo of a black woman in a white bathing suit

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Hi yes I’d like to report a crime. 🚨 Painting over all that brick and terra cotta details is an historic preservation felony.

The storefront of a 1920’s building painted BRIGHT red. The bricks and terra cotta architectural details are visible under the shiny red paint.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Just thinking about these books that came my way at work a few weeks ago. For no reason. At all.

2 books laying open to their title pages.

“POLITICS, PRESSURES AND THE TARIFF A Study of Free Private Enterprise in Pressure Politics, as Shown in the 1929-1930 Revision of the Tarif
BY
E. E. SCHATTSCHNEIDER”

“The Law and Customs
Of
Riot Duty
A Guide For National Guard Officers and Civil Authorities
With
Commentaries on Federal Aid
1907”

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I only make fun of someone's looks when the inside matches the outside.

a side-by-side showing photos of Bove at his confirmation hearing and a still of Count Orlok in Nosferatu, 1922

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This discussion topic on the conservation listserv is making me laugh every time it pops up. Stop kissing art.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I didn’t win anything but a good time with friends tonight. Pretty sure there were bingo balls missing.

2 white bingo cards on a brown table in front of a bottle of beer and a small cup of pennies.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This phone in a fireman’s museum in Philly.

An early 20th century phone on a brown wood wall. The phone design looks like a face, with 2 bells like eyes and a long speaker like a nose.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Some people call them type specimen books, but we call them-

Cover of a book with the title “Lead soldiers on parade” in capital, red inline letters taking up most of the cover.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

As my brain and body process, my current direct rage is that we’ll have to see these stupid fucking words forever.

Screenshot of a TurboTax email subject line “Breaking News: One Big Beautiful
Bill Passes. What this means for”…

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

In which you will find a photo of all of us

A large blue book on a wooden book cart with the cover facing the viewer. The title, in gold, is “Encyclopedia of Stress” with the word STRESS extremely large.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

When horrible news is trying to compete with other horrible news. Just reading about the scotus decision when a pop-up about the house passing the public radio defunding bill hides the article.

Screenshot of a website with a pop-up notice about defunding npr that hides their article about the supreme court decision about trans medical care.

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